Most of the collection consists of photographs of person, mountains, equipment, and aircraft used in the expedition to recover bodies from the C-A1 of the ATC which crashed in the Mount McKinley region, circa 1944.
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The highly anticipated "Vital Signs" television series launches on Alaska One and KUAC-TV. Alaska has been a leader in delivering high quality health care to its citizen, especially in rural and remote locations. Alaska's health professionals...

This series of menus was used by the Alaska Steamship Company for a cruise up the Inside Passage. This one shows a two-color print of tourists on the streets of an Alaskan village, probably Sitka, beneath the mountains and a Russian church. They...

View of man and child walking on dock on main street of Seward, Alaska, with another person in background. From front: "Seword [sic] Alaska main street, taken by W.A. McPherson [sic]. 1904." From verso: "Seward, Alaska, 1904, a few days after it...

A dark-colored sea plane is on Hooper Bay, with an overcast sky above. "Northern Consolidated Airlines" is painted on the side of the plane, and "No. 53651" is painted on the tail, although the numbers are hard to read...

Also written on the slide, "Hooper Bay, Oct. 1949." A man and woman stand in front of an array of wooden buildings with metal roofs. Their features are hard to distinguish due to poor lighting and shadows. They both...

Three women, two men, and one child are in this photo. Two of the women are hard to see, due to deep shadows. The woman on the far right is wearing a plaid shirt, while the other two women are wearing dresses. The...

Blurry photo of two women makes it hard to see and recognize faces. They both are wearing scarves on their heads, and are standing in front of a white building and green vehicle. One woman is wearing a dark jacket and...

The ferry at Nenana, which has the name "Yutana" painted on the front and side. It has a paddlewheel and three decks, as well as a couple of spotlights. The letters "BYL"are painted on the smoke stack, although the...

Title from finding aid. Photograph shows a glacier and mountains in the distance as seen from an airplane. What kind of land directly underneath the plane is hard to determine. The wing of the airplane can just barely be seen. Caption from...

Title by cataloger. Photograph of an elevated cache with at least four dogsleds stored for summer. Hung higher and to the right side of the photo is drying meat. Also visible are at least two canoes. Narrative in photo album reads:"An...

Title from caption. Photograph of a woman standing on what may be a moose hide as she prepares it for smoking. Narrative from photo album reads:"Here is Mrs. Luke working on a moose skin. It has stood for days in a a stinking mess of rotten...

Title from caption. Photograph of a woman on the bank of the Yukon River cutting salmon. Narrative in photo album reads:Above is Eva cleaning salmon. This is a hard, dirty, wet job. The salmon are split flat wise along the back bone to the...

Title from caption. Photograph of George Gasser supervising the reaping of wheat on the Rampart, Alaska experimental farm. Narrative in photo album reads:"All scenes on the U. S. Experimental Station. Main objective was to develop a wheat...

Title by cataloger. Photograph of farm equipment on an experimental farm in Rampart, Alaska. Narrative in photo album reads:"All scenes on the U. S. Experimental Station. Main objective was to develop a wheat which would ripen hard enough to...

Title from caption. Photograph of a Wyoming desert. Narrative in photo album reads:"This is not a cultivated field, but a barren, sandy desert in Wyoming. The small mounds were too hard to be eroded by the wind blown sand."